A/N: This is set before the movies, sometime during Peppers second, maybe third year of being Tony's assistant...

Hope you enjoy...


They were sniggering at her.

Every male and female employee she past as she made her way to her office at Stark Industries went quiet until they thought she was out of ear shot, their crude remarks the only noises to her ears. Some of them barely had the chance to cover their mouths before erupting into laughter and she wondered what vicious rumour had been spread this time.

Was she, once again, supposedly in some sort of secret sexual relationship with Tony Stark? Was she pregnant with his child? Had he fired her because she wouldn't sleep with him? Or had he fired her because she had?

Pepper had heard them all before and wondered what privy information about her had gotten every single Stark employees hyped up. She narrowed her eyes as she stepped out of the elevator and onto her floor; time seemed to stand still as everyone in her perspective view came to a halt.

It was unnerving.

She took a deep breath when she closed her office door, shutting out the strange behaviour of her co-workers, and moved slowly to her desk where she booted up her computer and opened up a copy of Mr. Starks schedule for the next week and loaded up her e-mail.

She had a few new messages in her inbox, mostly junk, she noted, high-lighting them all and deleting them without a second thought, there were a few from employees asking Mr. Stark for extension times on their projects while others were notifying her that they'd finished and would very much Mr. Stark to 'come take a look'

She was just about to delete another batch when one subject title caught her eye 'Pepper Goes Potty!' it read in bold and italics, and had been forwarded to every single employee of Stark Ind.

Bold and italics..? Subject headers couldn't be printed in bold and italics, could they?

Her hand froze over the mouse as she thought about whether or not she should spare herself and just delete it, but despite herself she double clicked and waited nervously.

Her stomach dropped and suddenly felt as if she could cry because there sitting on her screen was an old baby photo of her at the age of about two, an upside down book in her hands as she sat on a yellow plastic potty, naked!

It was a photo out of her mother's collection of 'favourites', a photo her mother refused to show anyone including past boyfriends, a photo so incriminating that only one man would dare go behind her back and charm her mother enough for her to give it to him.

Her days schedule took a drastic turn, her first and only priority for the day and possibly the next few weeks: killing Tony Stark!

The bastard wouldn't know what hit him!


A/N: This has never happened to me as far as I'm aware :S, but the showing of embarrassing baby photo's to friends or boy-friends must be horrible. Thanks you for reading and please review :)